𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍 𝑶𝒇 𝑺𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 ~ 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝑿 𝑶𝒄

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒅 "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒔 𝑵𝒆𝒂𝒓"

𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒃𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔

"𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒔?" 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒗𝒆, "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎'𝒔 𝒋𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑱𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒊 𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏." 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂, "𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆?" 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑, "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆." 𝑯𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 "𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏." 𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚, "𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅." 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑, "𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒉𝒆𝒓." 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, "𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑?, 𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆." 𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚, "𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆? 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆?" 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚, 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅, "𝑺𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕." 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕, "𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆?, 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏."

𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔, "𝑺𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈." 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑, "𝑾𝒆 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓." 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, "𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝑰 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏?" 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅, "𝒀𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒊𝒅, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒕, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔." 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚, "𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂." 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂, 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉, "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓?" 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚, "𝑵𝒐." 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒍𝒚, 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚 "𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆." 𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆, 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆, "𝑰'𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓.", 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚, "𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒕, 𝑴𝒂𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕." 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒔 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉, 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆, "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏, 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒈𝒐." 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔, "𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂." 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅'𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓, "𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂!" 𝑬𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝑸𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒎, "𝑳𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒈𝒐."